We arrived in Kanyakumari at 12:30 am, but it took a long time until 2:30 to find a suitable hotel to check into. That night I slept in a double bed with the three teen-agers in the family. That was okay until the three of them rolled over to one side of the bed, pinning me against the wall of the room. I have not learned the proper technique of pushing back yet.
The dinosaur
Then in the afternoon we went to the Basilica of Our Lady of Ransom.
At 3:15 we left for Kuttalam, and stopped briefly at a church in Vallioor along the way. We arrived in Kuttalam long after dark and went to the popular waterfalls and bathing area there, which I found much too covered with garbage to be appealing. At 10:30 pm we started on the long overnight trip back to Chennai.
I got up at 6:30 and walked around the area. I came across an odd-looking mosque with towers surmounted by square-shaped fleur-de-lis that look an awful lot like crosses.
The mosque
Next to our hotel was a small local museum. On display were a dinosaur that moves and roars when plugged in and a number of panels with aphorisms and others about local history
The dinosaur
The panels with aphorisms
The panels about local history
Kanyakumari forms the southernmost tip of India and attracts a lot of tourists. In the morning we went to the large Hindu temple in the city, but we did not go out to the Vivekananda memorial on an off-shore island.
Then in the afternoon we went to the Basilica of Our Lady of Ransom.
The church
The church interior
The family in front of the church
As elsewhere on the trip, finding bath room facilities was difficult. In this case the problem was solved when a woman who worked at the church invited us all to her home a couple of blocks away.
The couple whose house we took over
At 3:15 we left for Kuttalam, and stopped briefly at a church in Vallioor along the way. We arrived in Kuttalam long after dark and went to the popular waterfalls and bathing area there, which I found much too covered with garbage to be appealing. At 10:30 pm we started on the long overnight trip back to Chennai.
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